Christen Købke
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Christen Schjellerup Købke (born May 26, 1810 in Copenhagen , † February 7, 1848 in Copenhagen) was a Danish painter. He is one of the most famous painters of the " Golden Age " of Danish painting.
Life
Christen Købke grew up as one of eleven children of the baker Peter Berendt Købke and his wife Cecilie Margrete. In 1822, at the age of 12, he began his education at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen. Here he studied first with Christian August Lorentzen and after his death in 1828 with Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg .
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In addition to portraits, Købke painted numerous landscape views of his hometown Copenhagen and its surroundings. From 1838 to 1840 he stayed in Italy. He created large-format views with Italian motifs on the pictures of the last years of his life.
Pictures of Købke hang u. a. in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , in the Heinrich Hirschsprung Collection in Copenhagen and in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh , in the 2010 the exhibition Christen Købke. Danish Master of Light was shown.
literature
- 2010: Catalog for the exhibition Christen Købke. Danish Master of Light , National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
- Christen Købke . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 9 : Jyde – Køtschau . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1895, p. 618 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Works by Christen Købke at Zeno.org .
- Literature by and about Christen Købke in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Købke, Christians |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Købke, Christen Schellerup; Købke, Christen Schjellerup |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1848 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |